Rush Limbaugh: Will polls light Dem fire?

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Monday that even with Republicans doing well in recent polls, the right should be skeptical, questioning whether results are a means to spark Democrats ahead of midterms.

“Correct me if I’m wrong. USA Today and the Pew Research Center have no interest in Republicans winning elections,” Limbaugh said on his radio program “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” according to a transcript.

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“We suspect (because we know) that any polling unit can get any result it wants based on the way it asks questions,” Limbaugh said. “So I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth here, but what if they have attempted to light a fire under the Democrats here by producing a poll that’s absolutely horrible?”

Limbaugh’s comments follow the release Monday of a Pew Research and USA Today poll in which 47 percent said they would vote for the GOP candidate in their district while 43 percent said they would vote for the Democrat — a reversal from just two months ago. The pollster called the results “daunting” for Democrats going into November.

The conservative radio host added, “It’s not just these guys,” pointing to another poll seemingly in the GOP’s favor released in April by Democracy Corps, in which voters said the economy is main issue for 2014 and showed Democratic are less likely to vote in the midterms than Republicans.

“It’s bad for the Democrats, too. There isn’t one poll that looks good for the Democrats going into the November midterms. The polls all show a different variation of success for the Republicans,” Limbaugh said.